Laptops and PCMCIA/PC-Card *SOLVED*

[YOke]

OK. It's like this:

I recently got my hands on an old "laptop". It's a Compaq LTE 4/75, 486 with 32MB RAM.
Sure, it's old and slow, but it runs Word and classic adventuregames just fine. The thing is that I would like to have USB-ports on it. It has two PCMCIA ports and the manual says they support Type I, II and III cards. All the USB-PCMCIA cards I find for sale are Cardbus (32-bit) and I have serious doubts that the PC will support them.
My question is: Do you know if this laptop will support Cardbus, or do you know where I could get my hands on a 16-bit USB-PCMCIA card (if there is such a thing)?

[juncmodule]

Are you running Windows 95 OSR2? If not then even if you find a card it won't help you. You have to have an operating system that supports USB. Odds are the hardware won't either. I may be wrong about that, PCMCIA cards can do some wonderful things. Problem is finding one that will work with it may be near impossible.

What are you trying to connect to via USB? You should be able to find a parallel port version of the same thing.

later,
-junc

[Chicky]

hey yOke, would either of these help?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3710&item=3486707334&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50197&item=5102354769&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

the first one supports typeII , the one from the manufactors site

they're PCMCIA to USB connectors, slot the PCMCIA into your machine cable into the card and usb into your cable

the prices are in sterling, but they post to uk only...

anyway, its just a base for a search right? atleast you've got somthing to work on now

-nath

*edit* manufactuers site - http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Product_Id=20852

[YOke]

Problem solved! I finally found confirmation that the machine indeed supports cardbus (32-bit) PC-Cards!

junc: I'm running Win98. Quite smoothly for such an old machine too.
OSC: thanks!